Anachronic
a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot:
anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
adjective
out of chronological order or out of date
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- Anachronically
something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time: the sword is an anachronism in modern warfare. an error in chronology in which a person, object, event, etc., is -ssigned a date or period other than the correct one: to […]
- Anachrony
a discrepancy between the order of events in a story and the order in which they are presented in the plot: anachronies are either flashbacks or flashforwards.
- Anachronous
misplaced in time; anachronistic.
- Anacidity
the abnormal absence of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. anacidity an·a·cid·i·ty (ān’ə-sĭd’ĭ-tē) n. absence of acidity, especially the absence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juices.
- Anaclastic
of or relating to refraction. historical examples anaclastic, an-a-klas′tik, adj. pertaining to refraction: bending back. chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various